You have several choices for bringing a still image, such as a drawing or a photograph, into your multimedia project. This activity card describes one way&emdash; using a QuickTake digital camera. Activity cards 1, 3, and 4 describe other popular ways to capture a still image.

1. Connect the equipment. After you've taken the picture you want to use, turn off your camera (shut the lens cover).

 

2. Plug one end of the serial cable into the modem port on your Macintosh. Plug the other end of the cable into the serial port on the camera.

 

3. Turn on the camera (open the lens cover).

 

 

Before you decide which pictures to use, you can preview them.

 

1. On your Macintosh, double-click the QuickTake icon to open it.

 

2. Choose View Slides in Camera from the Camera menu. See your HyperStudio manual for instructions.

 

3. Bring the content into the Macintosh. If you're planning to edit your photograph, first save it to your hard disk.

 

4. Double-click the QuickTake icon to open it, if necessary.

 

5. Choose Move All Images to Disk from the Camera menu. If a QuickTake camera icon appears on your desktop, you can drag only the images you want from the camera icon to the hard disk. To get the QuickTake camera icon to appear on your desktop, use the QuickTake Setup control panel.

 

6. In the box that appears, choose the location on the hard disk where you want to save the pictures, then click Save.

 

 

1. Double-click a chosen image.

 

2. Open the image-editing program.

 

3. Choose Open from the File menu.

 

4. In the box that appears, choose the picture you want, then click OK.

 

 

1. Choose Save As to save the edited image under a new name (different from the name of the file you copied to your hard disk). This way, you can go back to the original without bringing it into your Macintosh again.

 

2. Bring the edited image into your project - This step depends on what authoring software you're using. To bring your edited image into a HyperStudio card, choose Add Clip Art from the File menu. 

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